The Only Way Is Up by barely black francis

Stunning, just stunning:

http://www.abctales.com/barely_black_francis/the_only_way_is_up

I've bookmarked this one and will keep coming back to it.

Do you use your bookmarks\?

Mark Brown : "Losing friends"

Your writting makes me want to sit down with a cup of coffee and twenty marlborough lights.It's like a warm blunket, like your other writting on this set 'Damaged Goods'. I have no idea why you're not published and please, please keep on writting!

http://www.abctales.com/node/526974

soraia

The Short Story

http://www.theshortstory.org.uk

The website above has been set up in general to provide information / support and to promote the short story. It's an off shoot of last year's 'Save Our Short Story' campaign.

On the site you can read short stories, find info about different collections and there's also a competition, the top prize being £15,000. Not bad. The winner gets read out along with a number of runners up on Radio 4.

So enter.

It would be nice to see someone from ABCTales doing the business.

Mysterious79

Just read through these poems recently posted.

I wanted to comment on these because I experienced something that appears very similar.

I think whatever you feel about loss such as this, it takes tremendous courage to not only put your thoughts down on paper, but to show them to others. This courage should be commended.

A Sure Thing.

Made me smile, Spack :o)
Reminded me of Rimmer in Better Than Life... wonder what ever happened to the Red Dwarf film?
http://www.abctales.com/spack/a_sure_thing

The Columbus Crocodile

Made me smile - such a pity that the secret of peanut butter died with the Queen and wasn't invented again until the 1880's - probably why the croc was so upset at her passing :o)
http://www.abctales.com/joseph_xavier_martin/the_columbus_crocodile

The wailing wall

Greetings

How disappointed was I to discover the wall doesn't actually wail. Going to the dead sea on Friday...and apparently there are bacterial life forms living in it. Have I been conned?

The cattle better be lowing when I get to Bethlehem or I'm going to Ibiza next year.

Only joking - its fab here. Miss y'all.

jude

Sensing by camus

So much poetry here and elsewhere goes over this ground - and most of it is, frankly, pretty poor.

That's why when a good one comes along it should be applauded to the skies:

http://www.abctales.com/camus/sensing

This is not easy and others should take note!

pointless statistics

The american amazon site (www.amazon.com) now provides a series of pointless statistics about books. Just look at a books page, if they have analysed it there will be a list of SIPS (statistically improbable phrases) at the top and a "Concordance" and "Text Stats" links under the "Inside This Book" section.

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